Theatre History I.B

Question 1

When was the Elizabethan Period?

Answer 1

1558/-1603

Question 2

When was the Renaissance Period?

Answer 2

beginning of the 14th century

Question 3

What are Shakespare’s dates?

Answer 3

1564-1616

Question 4

Explain the act of vagabonds

Answer 4

-Est. by Queen Elizabeth in 1572
-persons were put in charge of actors still performing when the pageant wagon was banned
-this created protection and organization

Question 5

Explain the master of revels

Answer 5

-Est. by Queen Elizabeth in her court
-they would: give a license for the play, say when you could perform it, get 7 shillings for every play licensed and stop th play if there was a plague

Question 6

What were the two major theatre groups in London at the time

Answer 6

Lord Chamberlains Men; Lord Admirals Men

Question 7

Who were the theatre managers, and what were the dates?

Answer 7

Phillip Henslowe (1550-1616), James Burbage (1531-1597)

Question 8

How were the theatre companies organised?

Answer 8

They were organized on a stock-holding profit system; to be involved in the company you could buy stocks and based on the audience you could gain a profit

Question 9

Who is Christopher Malowe?

Answer 9

-Playwright, poet, translator
-UK (1564-1593)
-Known for creating Faustus and writing Tamburlaine; The Great Plays

Question 10

What are foul papers?

Answer 10

Pages and sides written for each character by the playwright. It was the most valuable since it was the original copy

Question 11

What is fair copy ?

Answer 11

Final corrected (not necessarily entirely correct) manuscript such as a dramatist might submit to a theatre company

Question 12

What is the book of the play ?

Answer 12

Document of all of the information somebody would write. It was kept instead of the foul papers

Question 13

Explain the first folio

Answer 13

-1683
-Shakespeare’s first publication after he died
-Comprised of tragedies, comedies, sonnets, poems, romances, histories etc
-The last play written what’s the Tempest

Question 14

What were the sharers responsible for?

Answer 14

Purchasing plays, getting male actors and building theatres

Question 15

How and why were the puritans against theatre?

Answer 15

They encouraged young men to portray themselves as women (homosexuality)

Question 16

What does renaissance mean?

Answer 16

1. The revival of European art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th and 16th centuries
2. the reviewed interest in something

Question 17

Explain humanism in the Renaissance period

Answer 17

An intellectual movement typified by a revived interest in the classical world and studies which focused not only on religion but on what it is to be human

Question 18

What was Italy’s contribution to the theatre?

Answer 18

Teatro Olimpico is a theatre in Vicenza, northern Italy, constructed in 1580–1585. The theatre was the final design by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio and was not completed until after his death.

Question 19

Explain the staging styles and how it was done

Answer 19

There was a wing and groove system; different sceneries was put on the wings to pull out for certain types of plays; columns were used for tragedy, houses for comedy and landscapes for romance; this style stayed until the modern period in 1850